Worldwide semiconductor revenue totalled\n$419.1 billion in 2019, down 12% from 2018, according to final results by\nGartner, Inc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOversupply\nin the DRAM market helped push the overall memory market down 32.7% 2019. The\nmemory market accounted for 26.1% of semiconductor sales in 2019 and was the\nworst-performing device segment,\u201d said Andrew Norwood<\/a>, research vice president at Gartner. \u201cThe\nUS-China trade war distorted sales throughout the year and was an additional\nheadwind to revenue growth for the overall global semiconductor market. During 2019, this brewing trade war\nseemed the most imminent danger to the world economy, but with the current\nspread of the COVID-19\nvirus<\/a>, trade wars seem a minor issue in comparison.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Table 1. Top 10 Semiconductor Vendors by Revenue, Worldwide, 2019 (Millions of US Dollars)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Within the memory segment, NAND flash suffered\nits worst sales contraction in its history with 2019 revenue declining 26.4%\ndue to elevated levels of inventory at the end of 2018 and sluggish demand in the\nfirst half of 2019. Weak demand from smartphone and hyperscale cloud service\nproviders drove down prices and forced nearly all vendors to pull back on\nexisting fab plans or, in some cases, cut wafer starts to levels below 2018.\nThe NAND market began to stabilise in July 2019 when a power outage in the fabs\njointly owned by KIOXIA and Western Digital acted as a catalyst to reduce\nvendor inventories and prompted prices to increase from unsustainable lower\nlevels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Performance in other device categories was mixed as analogue products declined 5.1% in 2019 and the optoelectronics segment grew 6.6% in 2019. Analog components, which normally closely track the overall semiconductor market, experienced a decline due to weak end-equipment markets, especially industrial and legacy automotive. Optoelectronics recorded the best performance of any device category due to the increasing number of cameras in smartphones<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAt this point, the global semiconductor market appears to be headed for another decline in 2020, due to the impact of the coronavirus on semiconductor supply and demand,\u201d said Mr Norwood. \u201cCOVID-19<\/a> has distorted supply chain and manufacturing operations across the world and will lead to a drastic drop in consumer and enterprise spending across most areas with a few exceptions. We expect the global semiconductor market to decline 0.9% in 2020<\/a>, which is down from forecasted growth of 12.5% at the end of 2019.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Worldwide semiconductor revenue totalled $419.1 billion in 2019, down 12% […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9619],"tags":[723,724,190,865,949,394,1134],"contributor":[],"class_list":["post-2490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid_19","tag-gartner","tag-report","tag-research","tag-revenue","tag-semiconductor"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Gartner-techxmedia.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"News Desk","author_link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/author\/rabab\/"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2490"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=2490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n 2019 Rank<\/strong>\n <\/td> \n 2018 Rank<\/strong>\n <\/td> \n Vendor<\/strong>\n <\/td> \n 2019 Revenue<\/strong>\n <\/td> \n 2019 Market <\/strong>\n Share (%)<\/strong>\n <\/td> \n 2018 Revenue<\/strong>\n <\/td> \n 2018-2019 Growth (%)<\/strong>\n <\/td><\/tr> \n 1\n <\/td> \n 2\n <\/td> \n Intel\n <\/td> \n 67,754\n <\/td> \n 16.2\n <\/td> \n 66,290\n <\/td> \n 2.2\n <\/td><\/tr> \n 2\n <\/td> \n 1\n <\/td> \n Samsung Electronics\n <\/td> \n 52,191\n <\/td> \n 12.5\n <\/td> \n 73,708\n <\/td> \n -29.2\n <\/td><\/tr> \n 3\n <\/td> \n 3\n <\/td> \n SK hynix\n <\/td> \n 22,297\n <\/td> \n 5.3\n <\/td> \n 36,240\n <\/td> \n -38.5\n <\/td><\/tr> \n 4\n <\/td> \n 4\n <\/td> \n Micron Technology\n <\/td> \n 20,254\n <\/td> \n 4.8\n <\/td> \n 29,742\n <\/td> \n -31.9\n <\/td><\/tr> \n 5\n <\/td> \n 5\n <\/td> \n Broadcom\n <\/td> \n 15,322\n <\/td> \n 3.7\n <\/td> \n 16,261\n <\/td> \n -5.8\n <\/td><\/tr> \n 6\n <\/td> \n 6\n <\/td> \n Qualcomm\n <\/td> \n 13,613\n <\/td> \n 3.2\n <\/td> \n 15,375\n <\/td> \n -11.5\n <\/td><\/tr> \n 7\n <\/td> \n 7\n <\/td> \n Texas Instruments\n <\/td> \n 13,364\n <\/td> \n 3.2\n <\/td> \n 14,592\n <\/td> \n -8.4\n <\/td><\/tr> \n 8\n <\/td> \n 8\n <\/td> \n ST Microelectronics\n <\/td> \n 9,451\n <\/td> \n 2.3\n <\/td> \n 9,579\n <\/td> \n -1.3\n <\/td><\/tr> \n 9\n <\/td> \n 10\n <\/td> \n NXP\n Semiconductors\n <\/td> \n 8,758\n <\/td> \n 2.1\n <\/td> \n 9,022\n <\/td> \n -2.9\n <\/td><\/tr> \n 10\n <\/td> \n 15\n <\/td> \n Apple\n <\/td> \n 8,569\n <\/td> \n 2.0\n <\/td> \n 7,646\n <\/td> \n 12.1\n <\/td><\/tr> \n \n <\/td> \n \n <\/td> \n Others \n (outside\n top 10)\n <\/td> \n 187,575\n <\/td> \n 44.8\n <\/td> \n 197,696\n <\/td> \n -5.1\n <\/td><\/tr> \n <\/strong>\n <\/td> \n <\/strong>\n <\/td> \n Total\n Market<\/strong>\n <\/td> \n 419,148<\/strong>\n <\/td> \n 100.0<\/strong>\n <\/td> \n 476,151<\/strong>\n <\/td> \n -12.0<\/strong>\n <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n